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, 1958 The singular impact of Darwin in fields other than biology can be attributed largely to one man, Herbert Spencer (1820- 1903). It was Spencer, not Darwin, who coined the expression survival of the fittest.
Bloom, Robert L. +6 more
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Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
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Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2004 This paper asks a puzzling question in its title, and then looks at various aspects of the current revision of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED; Third Edition, 2000-) in search of answers.
John Simpson
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Knowing Receipt, Equitable Proprietary Rights, and Duties of Due Administration
The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.In Byers v Saudi National Bank (2023) the Supreme Court held that a claimant in knowing receipt must have had a ‘continuing equitable proprietary interest’ in the property received by the defendant. Such an interest is commonly understood to include a right to benefit from the property, yet successful claims in knowing receipt have often been made by ...
Lusina Ho, Charles Mitchell
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M. E. Grant Duff, Philosophic Liberalism and the Global Liberal Cause
History, EarlyView.Abstract Historians disagree about how best to conceptualize nineteenth‐century British Liberalism in relation to its international contexts. This article argues that we can better understand the patterns involved by interrogating individuals who bridged the worlds of partisan politics and elaborated thought.
Alex Middleton
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, 2013 This foreword to the Michigan Law Review’s 2013 Survey of Books Related to the Law considers the history of the American legal treatise in light of the well-known criticisms of legal scholarship published by Judge Harry Edwards in 1992.
Danner, Richard A.
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Winston Churchill and France: A Certain Ideal
History, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines relations between Winston Churchill and France. It argues that Churchill was sympathetic to France and, in particular, unusual among Englishmen of his generation in being sympathetic to its political system, but also that this sympathy did not make Churchill consistent in his relations with France.
Richard Vinen
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Art Education, Class, and Gender in a Foreign Art Gallery: Nineteenth-Century Cultural Travelers and the Prado Museum in Madrid [PDF]
, 2010 None ...
Afinoguénova, Eugenia
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‘A Sort of Armed Argument’: Ireland's Civil War of Words
History, EarlyView.Abstract This article sets out to contribute to the study of the languages of European civil wars through outlining and analysing the deployment of language as a weapon by the opposing sides of the Irish independence movement that split over the terms of the Anglo‐Irish Treaty of December 1921.
DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL
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